Liberty Bowl

For the last 18 years, the Liberty Bowl has been the postseason destination for the top Conference USA teams, but come 2014, it appears that the league and the Memphis-based game will divorce. The Memphis Commercial Appeal reported this week that the Liberty Bowl, which already has an SEC tie-in, will likely become a game played between SEC and Big 12 teams. "Nothing has been signed yet, and this process has taken a while," Liberty Bowl executive director Steve Ehrhart told the paper at Big 12 media days. "But I feel good about where we are." Conference USA commissioner Britton Banowsky agreed at his own media day that the writing was on the wall. “The [game]...

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